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Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo